Jo Nesbø

"Detective Harry Hole embarrassed the force, and for his sins he's been reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks. But while monitoring neo-Nazi activities in Oslo, Hole is inadvertently drawn into a mystery with deep roots in Norway's dark past, when members of the government willingly collaborated with Nazi Germany. More than sixty years later, this black mark won't wash away--and disgraced old soldiers who once survived a brutal Russian winter are...

Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom--a master of manipulation named Hecate--has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his way.

A mysterious postcard leads Lisa and Nilly from Oslo to Paris in search of Doctor Proctor but, once there, all they find of their missing friend is a time-traveling bathtub powered by a special soap and several sinister individuals determined to do all they can to locate the eccentric inventor.

"Une jeune femme est assassinée après un rendez-vous pris sur un site de rencontres. Les violentes marques de morsures dans son cou laissent les enquêteurs sans voix. Deux jours plus tard, le corps d'une autre utilisatrice de ce site est découvert, mutilé de la même façon. Pour le chef de la police, un seul homme peut identifier ce tueur. Mais Harry Hole, libéré de ses démons et heureux avec son épouse, s'est promis de ne plus mettre les...

Oslo Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to investigate a series of bank robberies of unparalleled savagery while at the same time absolving himself of the murder of his former girlfriend in a criminal investigation led by his longtime adversary Tom Waaler and Waaler's vigilante police force.

New adventures await Doctor Proctor, Lisa, and Nilly as they try to protect Oslo, Norway, from invading aliens, enormous snakes in the sewers, seven-legged Peruvian sucking spiders, and sinister waffle irons.

En lo alto de una montaña, en los páramos de Noruega, hay un viejo caserón habitado por un hombre solitario. Se llama Roy, es experto en pájaros, lleva la gasolinera del pueblo y en cada casa corre un rumor sobre él. Su vida gris se reabre con la vuelta de Carl, su hermano pequeño. No se ven desde que se fue a estudiar a Estados Unidos hace quince años, tras la muerte trágica de sus padres en un accidente de coche. El hijo pródigo trae consigo...

"Un detective experto en celos que debe dar caza a un hombre sospechoso de haber asesinado asu hermano. Un padre afligido que se plantea cuál es el lugar de la venganza en una sociedad que ha sucumbido a los más bajos instintos. Dos amigos que, de camino a los Sanfermines en Pamplona, se enamoran de la misma chica. Un basurero que, mientras se recupera de una profunda resaca, tiene que averiguar qué pasó exactamente la noche anterior. La historia...

"Nesbë [...] nikogda ne raskryvaet svoikh zamyslov zaranee, i do nedavnego vremeni bylo izvestno lishʹ to, chto pisatelʹ rabotaet nad dvumi︠a︡ sbornikami korotkoĭ prozy. V pervyĭ iz nikh voshli semʹ kriminalʹnykh istoriĭ, obʺedinennykh temoĭ revnosti. Vo vtorom -- Nesbë obrashchaetsi︠a︡ k teme gibeli chelovechestva. Nasha t︠s︡ivilizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ gibnet medlenno, no neotvratimo, rushatsi︠a︡ ustoi obshchestva, li︠u︡di...

When Harry left Oslo again for Hong Kong, fleeing the traumas of life as a cop, he thought he was there for good. But then the unthinkable happened. The son of the woman he loved, lost, and still loves is arrested for murder: Oleg, the boy Harry helped raise but couldn't help deserting when he fled. Harry has come back to prove that Oleg is not a killer. Barred from rejoining the police force, he sets out on a solitary, increasingly dangerous investigation...